We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
Relevance feedback (RF) is an interactive process which refines the retrievals by utilizing user’s feedback history. Most researchers strive to develop new RF techniques and ign...
Peng-Yeng Yin, Bir Bhanu, Kuang-Cheng Chang, Anlei...
The problem of multimodal data mining in a multimedia database can be addressed as a structured prediction problem where we learn the mapping from an input to the structured and i...
Zhen Guo, Zhongfei Zhang, Eric P. Xing, Christos F...
Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL - like projection with duplicate elimination, join, ordering, group by and aggregations - are efficiently processed using a sorted...
Most present day search engines have a deterministic behavior in the sense that they return the same search results for all users who submit the same query at a certain time. They...
Kapil Goenka, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Mustafa Nur...